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tampered2013-07-04 10:45 pm
notscrapmetal) wrote in tampered2013-07-04 10:45 pm
Mingle Log!
When; July 5th through July 7th!
Rating; G+
Characters; Open to ALL, 4th Wallers and Citizens!
Summary; The celebrations continue, and the Anonymous regime has summoned guests that Citizens might (not) prove very thrilled to see! As opposed to other Fourth Wall events, all visiting characters will have been invited to the City, or they must arrive here of their own will.
Mingle! Explore~!
Log;
There's so much to do and so much to see in this City of cities. From tromping through Xanadu, long walks along the shore, shopping in the Square, hunting in the forest, meeting a contact in the Underground, or getting as many answers as possible at the Welcoming Center how can anyone decide on just one. In three days time so much can be done!
Shops and restaurants are having specials. Happy hour has become happy days in some bars. This is quite the occasion! When the City decides to celebrate, it becomes contagious. Why not smile and strike up a conversation with a stranger? After all, a stranger is a friend you haven't met yet.
Rating; G+
Characters; Open to ALL, 4th Wallers and Citizens!
Summary; The celebrations continue, and the Anonymous regime has summoned guests that Citizens might (not) prove very thrilled to see! As opposed to other Fourth Wall events, all visiting characters will have been invited to the City, or they must arrive here of their own will.
Mingle! Explore~!
Log;
There's so much to do and so much to see in this City of cities. From tromping through Xanadu, long walks along the shore, shopping in the Square, hunting in the forest, meeting a contact in the Underground, or getting as many answers as possible at the Welcoming Center how can anyone decide on just one. In three days time so much can be done!
Shops and restaurants are having specials. Happy hour has become happy days in some bars. This is quite the occasion! When the City decides to celebrate, it becomes contagious. Why not smile and strike up a conversation with a stranger? After all, a stranger is a friend you haven't met yet.
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[Poor Freddy. Timecop came out in '94. In John's humble opinion it was pretty good. Entertaining way to waste a little time with mind candy.]
I think that could be somebody's movie somewhere.
[Real enthusiastic guy. He somehow sees a glimmer of Young Dewey.]
Where'd you work before you came here?
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No. His cruiser packed a roundhouse kick though, a Dodge Challenger.
[Aw now he's rubbing the back of his neck again. Freddy looks kind of sheepish.] Robbery and Homicide. You?
[He can't tell Hollywood Division by John's uniform and presumably there's no squad car for him to read either.]
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Heh. What year?
[Because Cooper's own charger is no classic. He just likes it a lot.]
Dirty work. [It's all dirty work though.] Hollywood. It's especially a mixed bag they say. I don't feel any different then I had.
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[Heh heh heh. Idly he thinks Raymond would hate this guy and want to suck him down at the same time. Ahem.]
I did my probation in Hollywood. [He's not going to ask who's still there no matter how much he wants to.] I was getting my detective chops for CRASH.
[Probation round 2, except Holdaway called it grooming. Never to Freddy's face though.]
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[As he thought. That seems like a movie decision. Dodge Chargers are very reliable, very attractive cars. If the time cop is real, he has good taste.]
Look at you on the up and up.
[And really turning around Cooper's perspective entirely. He was right about the retro though.]
How'd you like the change?
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I wasn't in it too long but I was out of uniform long enough.
[Before he ended up here. That's a shitty story to tell. He wonders what would Larry do if he saw the kid socializing with another (future) brother in blue. John Cooper being the first LAPD officer he's spoken to in years doesn't help.]
How about you? Do anything for you?
[He nods at Cooper's rank.]
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John is the kind of cop that makes criminals either slink back or feel the need to show they're not afraid even though they might be.]
Training boot after boot, I'm still happy with it.
[Happy in the way that he cannot dream up another way of life.]
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[He snorts and waves a hand like an old timer except Freddy knows he's playing a part.]
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[He's quick to correct. Superboot Sherman is still developing like a photograph. Cooper has his hopes. He shifts a little and sloshes around his drink before a sip.]
What's the work load like in these parts?
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It's alright, nothing like back home.
[The kid nods at the street.] 'course people around here, some of them can shoot lasers or they grow horns and say magic words. It's complicated.
[Then, Freddy adds!] The captain's Captain America.
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[That's his way of saying he sure sees what Freddy's talking about.]
Magic words on top of that? [Cooper shakes his head. Insane on the insane. How does anything keep running?] No room to be bored.
[No room to rest, like that doctor said. Waaaait. What was that you said, Freddy?]
...Really?
[Because it sounds like bullshit.]
Is the mayor the Pink Panther?
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[Again the kid laughs, feeling much more at ease with John Cooper by the second. Until he dares to mock Steve Rogers. Butterscotch blonde brows furrow.]
No. It's Deputy Dog, duh.
[It's a joke.]
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[Then it is much less boring. He licks his lips before another drink. It helps him hide a smile. Wait. Take that back. He's not Dewey. There's another guy that comes to mind.]
If it's Deputy Dog then isn't this a police state?
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[Freddy holds up both hands but they're both still kind of flapping in his usual animated way.]
Naw. If this was a police state we'd have a budget for uniforms. Everybody's gotta look the same you know.
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[Observant cop side steps enough to take a look. The City looks like a city, no rubble hanging out in the streets or big windows missing the glass in the frame. Not really uprising looking. Feeling restless he steps off the curb and finishes off his drink.
Does he need to gesture? Come along, Officer. He wants to walk and talk.]
Unless it is to keep everyone on their guard.
[Ahaha. He's fucking around.]
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[Freddy shakes his head. He also catches the gesture and starts walking with John Cooper.]
I kind of doubt it. They really like trouble around here, the chaotic kind. It's just enough to drive you fuckin' batty but not enough that it makes you wanna jump in front of traffic.
[The kid actually likes it here for various reasons, some he can't tell John.]
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If you say so.
[There's so much information to take in. And if there's one thing that gets you fucked is questioning another cop's beat. Disagree, sure but not openly and not right off the bat. Instincts can only go so far. He simply cannot picture a riot with these kinds of carnival people.]
Chaos on the daily.
[Normal and not.]
Is there a turnover rate?
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[Freddy actually winks this time because it's an idea that applies to police officers when compared to civilians. In this case it also applies to people from Earth and people from somewhere else like Narnia or the many different fucked up Japans he's heard about or the one where the Holy British Army is in Arizona.]
High enough, not always by choice or burnout. Some people just go home. I got lucky with my partner, he's from Detroit.
[Jabber jawing but hey this is information that could become useful to John Cooper if he stays. Oh shit Newendyke you shouldn't want people to stay. Not after just meeting them.]
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That wink though. Cooper smiles but when he's facing another direction. This fucker.]
Just go home? Pop in, pop out? That would only lend to disorganization.
[Not that he's heard aaaanything, that's what he's acting like. The Lady doctor mentioned things being screwed up.]
You both don't have that East Coast verses West Coast rivalry? That happens a time or two. Even now.
[After the 90s. How down was Freddy with Biggie and Tupac?]
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[The kid nods.]
The force was here before I was. They had cops from all kinds of places, I heard this one chick came from where they had to police magic. Alchemy stuff.
[Freddy had never met Riza Hawkeye and if he did he'd regret ever calling her a 'chick'. When John mentions a rivalry he just laughs.] I call it soda he calls it pop. Fucking weird.
[Another look over the street with caramel green eyes.] Is it just you?
[Just another thing Larry and the partner have in common.]
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[Because a pocket full of dreams isn't going to stop you from a 200 lb naked guy on PCP, magical PCP.]
Do they still have cops from everywhere?
[Police magic and a woman doing it. That's a story to tell to Chickie. Cooper stifles a laugh. It is all too much. The other cop's easy going manner makes it easier to not be such of a stone face. That's the familiar comfort of having another blue around with some age. You can trust them.]
Then it will escalate to dinner and supper. Wait and see.
[Har har har. Cooper nods.]
Just me. The radio's been dead since I got here. No squad car. If someone else is out there, I haven't seen or heard. There's an internet connection coming through. Some Network.
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[And a vulcan maybe. Also some other super powered people. Somebody who sees ghost. An actual ghost hunter. A vampire cowboy. And also his partner though Freddy stops just shy of telling John Cooper what it is that makes Ferguson's Detroit a bit different from the one they know.]
I gotcha. The Network's kind of like the internet.
[Oh no, Freddy Newendyke talking about something far advanced already in Cooper's day.] We use it for fucking everything. I even have a 'smartphone'. But we use a radio in the car, it keeps calls off the 'grid'.
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[Captain America. Comics are okay. The holy book? Well, to each their very fucking own. He can only imagine the rogue's gallery at the City police HQ.]
You don't say.
[It comes out with still too much of a sarcastic tinge to it. Oops. Smartphones were not around in 1992. That's worth toning down the sarcasm.]
Nice to know there's a way to separate it all.
[Radio. Grid and shit those are words he can understand.]
Wait. You're not on duty are you?
[Right now.]
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Me? No. No, I'm off duty. I'm...
[What are you doing, Newendyke? Just hanging around? Waiting for Larry to get off work? Doing...stuff.]
It's not a big island, there aren't that many places to see.
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Waiting for your turn back on.
[Now that, that right there sounds like the hardest time of all. Is it possible to just continue life as it should be in LA to the best of your abilities? The proof or at least attempt is right there with him. That is one more degree of respect for Freddy from Cooper. A man cannot be blamed for trying. Any lesser could turn the other cheek and use this all to fuck off, do what they want how they want it.]
If you don't mind, since I consider myself on call, you show me what's on there?
[A head nod to him and his smartphone. He hasn't directly tried to find anything of worth for a cop on the Network. Now is a good time.]
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